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  1. meStevo

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Leaning towards cutting the cord and dropping my DirecTV when we move next month. Just can't seem to pull the trigger. I'll always have my mom's DirecTV credentials so it's cheating really since we'll have access to all the on demand apps. A bit wary about not having Sunday Ticket I guess
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    Home buying thread

    We're a week or two into contract but now back to negotiating after the appraisal came in at $300k... $9k shorter than the $309k we'd agreed to. So we asked to drop the price, and they said 'cool, so we're not going to pay $9k in closing costs either and do we need to still give you this $500...
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    Fractured Space (Steam game)

    I like a lot of the ideas but wish there was a PvE component rather than a new take on arena gameplay.
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    Home buying thread

    I'm sure it's a factor, but it's just more stubs/paperwork in most cases I'd think. I've been at my current job 8 months after being at my prior for 10 years. No problems here except our appraisal just came back an hour ago $9k short. Back to the negotiating table for us.
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    Comic Books

    All of the above. I'd love to get back to 90s of multiple books going hundreds of issues, but don't think the market or writers really are into that kind of thing anymore. The market has gone into this cycle of being addicted to the bump a #1 provides and just feasts on every opportunity to...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I'd have to look up the dates of our other space-related disasters but w/ Challenger happening the week after my birthday and having really been into astronomy and all-things-space as a kid this one stuck w/ me the same way 9/11 and 11/13 (Paris, a friend was shot at the concert but has since...
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    Comic Books

    Disappointed, I'm slowly just losing interest in everything. Everything feels so obviously built to be turned into a TPB or to do a few token things leading up to the next reboot. Next up is DC's 'Rebirth' after the remaining New 52 titles hit issue 52. Went from interested at picking up a...
  8. meStevo

    Oregon Fire Chief finds evidence of FBI plants in Oregon standoff

    Down to just 4 people left in the standoff, and they're holding out because one of their guys has a warrant for the same crime the other leaders are charged for and they're afraid of being arrested. Meanwhile less than 24 hours ago they were asking people to come join them and murder FBI...
  9. meStevo

    Marvel Heroes 20xx

    So with controller support coming, any other signs they're bringing this to consoles?
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    Home buying thread

    And even then, appraiser might be having a bad day or have a different set of voodoo rules to go by to determine value too.
  11. meStevo

    Las Vegas

    There was an officer involved shooting too, but everyone on the strip thought it was still just the movie apparently, lol. Man arrested in officer-involved shooting near Bellagio | Las Vegas Review-Journal
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Installing the last couple of mirrors on JWST -Web Cam - JWST/NASA
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    So with rebirth, does it mail you all your stuff after the season then? So you get your original stuff + your season stuff all waiting in the mail? In the past I haven't even bothered emptying my mailbox after seasons. It's all I play at this point and don't really care about my set of...
  14. meStevo

    Parent Thread

    More than anything I'm just glad we're starting it before he gets into kindergarten and flames out due to behavior.
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    Parent Thread

    So we got our results tonight, my son is bright and mostly average but has delayed development of social skills. He'll get to spend 10 hours per week on a program offered by the school district as soon a they can get it through their system (within a few days) and will be re-evaluated quarterly...
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    Computer Issues

    Ruled out the PSU. Only get a couple of spikes over 1k playing Diablo gogusrl. It's like there's no bandwidth between components, making everything hang. Think I'm going to try and RMA the motherboard at this point. Have done everything but toss in a new HDD.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    I agree, but I think the reason we can't have nice things is then eventually they all want to be paid like Downey Jr. In the end I think it all comes down to budget and salaries.
  18. meStevo

    Computer Issues

    Reset BIOS to default, uninstalled and reinstalled the Intel ME stuff a couple times and now that is working properly. Machine still chugging and still w/ the F1/F2 menu. Going to swap out that battery again I guess and probably start moving things over to another PC for the LAN this...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Thought all the suspected bodies like that in the outer solar system were believed to have been evicted from the inner solar system by Jupiter or something.
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    Computer Issues

    Updated BIOS last night, will refocus on the Intel ME bit tonight.
  21. meStevo

    Computer Issues

    It's about a year old. I'm kinda fearful it's not the SSD. On boot the BIOS reset to defaults, has me hit F1/F2 to setup/continue. I got this to go away at one point adjusting some settings but before I called it a night it came back when I tweaked some things including putting my SSD...
  22. meStevo

    Computer Issues

    Around half of the 500gb is full. Tonight I was going to move every install I can off of it to my other drive anticipating a replacement / resetting Windows.
  23. meStevo

    Computer Issues

    Naturally, 2 days before a LAN party for my birthday my computer's performance goes to shit, resets bios on every boot and framerate is garbage. This is so lame. It runs like the OS is on a broken regular HDD rather than a SDD. These random readings below are a bit slow, no?
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    Homeworld Franchise

    Saw complaints on Steam there wasn't much available yet about modding capability, that change? Overall sounds like kind of a small game. 2 factions, 5 skirmish maps? Will be watching some gameplay and looking forward to how it evolves post-launch for sure.
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    Comic Books

    I'm really enjoying The Ultimates.
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    Home buying thread

    lol, 2 days under contract and previous broker for a house we bid on reaches out and says they got their seller to go along with a prior offer. Good thing we found a nicer place and not the other way around.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    New evidence suggests a ninth planet lurking at the edge of the solar system - The Washington Post
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I think the barges give them the (potential) capability to recover the rockets given certain launch locations and trajectories that wouldn't otherwise exist.
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    Suicide Squad (2016)

    Looks like a lot of fun, that's for sure.
  30. meStevo

    Virtual Reality

    Your link was 350 pounds, which is $491
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    Home buying thread

    lol at the last few posts. Yay we found a seller who's less of a dick and actually countered our offer with something we could live with. We've countered back seeing if we could get them to pay a little more closing, but hopefully something we can get done over the next day or so. Thanks...
  32. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    One of the landing struts failed, is the cause of not landing. Otherwise they stuck it. Amazing. Instagram
  33. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's secondary to the primary mission, these landing attempts are just experiments and probably aren't reasons to scrub a launch.
  34. meStevo

    The Astronomy Thread

    SpaceX tried landing on the drone ship 20 minutes ago in 13 foot seas. Was a hard landing and broke a landing strut so it was not successful. The rest of the mission nominal so far. Footage to come later, feed cut out as 1st stage approached the drone ship.
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    Battlestar Galactica

    Hated a lot of the planet stuff, but that was one of my favorite moments in the series, yeah.
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    I think the Chiefs winning will be dependent on if the offense can avoid their typical sputter and consistently sustain drives rather than anything NE does. The defense has kept them in it to fix the offense nearly every game and a lack of mistakes otherwise keeps them out of a hole. Up 13...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    They think it's salt left behind when ice vaporizes/evaporates. Dawn pictures shed more light on Ceres bright spots This photo from the above link is cool, you can see the material in the striations on the crater wall. Unrelated, SpaceX has hold-fired the rocket they landed, had an...
  38. meStevo

    Home buying thread

    So of course our first offer was rejected and sounds like seller is a pain in the ass House comped for about ~285k, it's listed for 309. We offered 295k and seller pays closing, effective offer of like 284k. Had to balance it between insulting and 'hope it appraises for this much' His...
  39. meStevo

    Comic Books

    Thought the ending was pretty great all things considered.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Planetary Annihilation is part of the Friday bundle, $2.99 -https://www.indiegala.com/friday One of the fears initially was that Ubi and others would follow suit on consoles... unfortunately they haven't. Depending on what you play it's been a better value than XB GWG and PS+ this gen, so yeah...